About the Author

Anna George Meek has published in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Seneca Review, The Missouri Review (where she was awarded the Tom McAfee Discovery Prize), Water- Stone, Crazyhorse, and dozens of other national journals. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, two Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships, and an Academy of American Poetry Prize. She is the author of Acts of Contortion, which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry; ENGRAVED: POEMS (2013), the winner of the 2011 Snowbound Chapbook Competition from Tupelo Press; and most recently THE GENOME RHAPSODIES (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2015). Meek lives with her husband and daughter in Minneapolis, where she sings professionally with the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and is a professor of English in the Twin Cities.